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reminiˈscential, a. [f. reminiscence: cf. essential.] Of the nature of, pertaining to, reminiscence; of a reminiscent character.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. Pref. A iij, Would Truth dispense, we could be content, with Plato,..that Intellectuall acquisition were but Reminiscentiall evocation. 1682― Chr. Mor. iii. §10 Trust not too much unto suggestions from reminiscential Amulets, or artificial Memorandums. 1853Lowell Moosehead Jrnl. Pr. Wks. 1890 I. 1 At the sound of the name, no reminiscential atoms..stirred and marshalled in my brain. 1869Mrs. H. Wood Roland Yorke III. 70 Just as Roland Yorke had seen them in his reminiscential visions. 1891W. C. Hudson Man with a Thumb i. 7 As the old man indulged his reminiscential vein. Hence reminiˈscentially adv. (In recent Dicts.) |